You Could Not Track Your Campaign Funds - Reno Omokri Slams Peter Obi For Asking FG To Show Nigerians How Money Saved From Fuel Subsidy Removal Is Spent

Former Presidential aide, Reno Omokri has taken a swipe at the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi for demanding accountability from the Tinubu-led government on how money saved from fuel subsidy removal is utilised.

TORI had earlier reported that in a recent interview with News Central TV, Obi emphasized the need for transparency in government figures.

He argued that if subsidy has truly been removed, the government should clearly outline the projects where the savings are being redirected, allowing for accountability and tracking.

Obi also pointed out that while subsidy has been lifted, the country’s debt continues to rise alongside the cost of living, raising concerns about the overall impact on citizens.

‘’We need more transparency and when you talk about transparency in terms of figures, you show it, you elucidate it. One plus one is two. It is not something you say it is just two because of ..tell us how we arrived at it and we will believe. When we talk about subsidy, I continuously say it, if we are removing subsidy, what are we replacing it with? where are we applying that subsidy we removed to? So if you say to me I have removed subsidy, I am going to use it to build this number of classroom to be able to pull out of school children into school, then we can verify and follow and track those schools. When we have issues in primary healthcare especially issues of infant mortality, removal of fuel subsidy will enable us build this number of primary health care in different….we can measure it. You don't remove something without saying what it replaces and where are we moving our money to. Or it is helping us manage our debt. Here we have fuel subsidy removed and the debt is increasing and we are not seeing anything''.

Reno felt Obi was not morally upright enough to demand transparency from the Federal government.

‘’This is rich coming from a man who cannot even track his own campaign spending from donations made by Nigerians in the diaspora. We listened to the embattled Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, as he regaled us with details of how Peter Obi and his cronies seized control of campaign funds, did as they wished with it, and did not put their own party into the know of how those funds were spent.

Moreover, this is a fellow who, as Anambra Governor, did not do what he now asks the Federal Government to do. Instead, he placed state funds into a bank where he had controlling interests and was earning money for himself at the state's expense.

A man who hid suspicious funds away in offshore accounts until they were exposed by the Pandora Papers, which indicted him for criminal behaviour, is not in a position to pontificate as if he is a saint.

If Peter Obi cannot be accountable to his own party and cannot transparently track funds donated to his campaign or avoid a conflict of interest in handling state government funds, what moral grounds does he have to point fingers at others?''